acceptance testing
Formal tests conducted to verify whether or not a new system a new system meets its requirements
accumulator
A register within the CPU. It stores the results of the last computation by the CPU.
active high

active low

ADC

address bus

ADSL

AGP

ALU

amplitude

analog

analysing

application software

ASCII

asymmetrical

asynchronous

ATA

audit trail

backup copy

bandwidth

baud rate

Bayer filter

Bezier curve

bias

BIOS

bit

bitmap image

block based encoding

boundary

bps

Braille

break-even point

broadband

browser

buffer

bus

byte

cable modem

cache

CCD

CCITT

CD-R

CD-RW

cell

centralised processing